Cult cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice will premiere their new musical Insane Animals at HOME Manchester this February with a two week run. The larger than life production features time travel, aliens, political and environmental commentary all wrapped up in a musical. The alternative performers Bourgeois and Maurice (George Heyworth and Liv Morris) continue HOME’s…
Ad Infinitum present their latest production Extraordinary Wall of Silence at HOME Manchester during a 13-show run in February. Commissioned by HOME Manchester, Extraordinary Wall of Silence comprises three powerful coming-of-age stories. Supported by The North Wall, it traces the oppression and ignorance faced by the Deaf community to one pivotal point in history. [adrotate…
HOME Manchester will host a retrospective of acclaimed Manchester-born screenwriter Robert Bolt as they kick of their 2020 film programme. Their annual British Screenwriters season will be dedicated to the Manchester-born and education screenwriter this January. The acclaimed stage and screen writer initially made his name in theatre with his 1960 play about Sir Thomas…
Manchester-based poet, playwright and performer Chanje Kunda will debut her new one-woman show Plant Fetish at HOME Manchester. The production first appeared as a work-in-progress performance at HOME’s Push Festival earlier this year but will now have a four performance run at the venue. Plant Fetish will then go on a UK tour in 2020….
Manchester-based Company Chameleon open a UK tour of their new show The Shadow with a world premiere at HOME Manchester. The dance theatre company have developed a strong reputation for creating socially relevant dance theatre, exploring human issues. They take on topics including mental health, masculinity and relationships. This production finds Company Chameleon exploring the…
The award-winning Forced Entertainment return to Home Manchester alongside Real Magic with latest production Out of Order. A troupe of hapless clowns sit huddled round a table, waiting for trouble to start, like friends divided or deadlocked politicians. There are old gags that escalate and new ones that backfire. Music, sweat and bright lights. Blank…
HOME Manchester will host the greatest show on screen season as a series of huge musicals comes to the First Street venue. The season was announced over the weekend with a flashmob performance of Singin’ in the Rain outside HOME (yes, it was suitably rainy). As part of the BFI’s Musicals: The Greatest Show on…
Matt Haig’s Reasons To Stay Alive comes to HOME Manchester with a stage adaptation from Sheffield Theatres and English Touring Theatre. The production is directed by Jonathan Watkins, featuring text from April De Angelis. At 24, Matt’s world collapsed under the weight of depression. Reasons To Stay Alive is the true story of his journey…
A new HOME Projects exhibition, Flash Bang Wallop, has opened at HOME Manchester with Manchester photographer Chris Payne exploring drumming. Flash Bang Wallop imagines and recreates the early memories and self-perfecptions of drummers in a series of portraits featuring some of the most iconic players of the past 50 years. Drummers who have participated in…
The third annual season of Not Just Bollywood comes to HOME Manchester celebrating the work of women directors. Running for three weeks at HOME Manchester, Not Just Bollywood 2019 reflects on HOME’s Celebrating Women in Global Cinema season with a string of films curated by UK-based film scholar Omar Ahmed and Home’s Head of Film…
